MGG 441: … But No Ringo!

Dave and John once again dig deep into the mailbag for you, answering all your questions. This week includes questions from many listeners, all asking about a variety of topics. Learn how to free up inactive RAM, analyze your Mac's crash reports, whether or not you should run as admin and much more! Download for free, press play, and enjoy!

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Stuff mentioned:

• South by Southwest 2013 (1:30)
• CapMac (1:40)
• Hitachi Travelstar 7K1000 (John’s new Hard Drive for his Mac mini) (4:00)
• Mac mini 2010: slow Toshiba MK3255GSXF 320GB drive shown as SATA 150?
• Mac Mini Mid 2010 Hard Drive Replacement (6:35)
• DrivePulse (part of Drive Genius) (7:15)
• Article suggesting use of ‘purge’ to free RAM (8:30)
• Monolingual (11:20)
• OS X: About Gatekeeper (12:40)
• Code Signing (13:30)
• Clean My Mac 2 (16:30)
• MacKeeper (18:35)
• Reset SMC (35:25)
• kextstat command (to see what’s up with your kernel) (38:20)
• kextstat sorted by size (take it or leave it):

  kextstat | awk '{printf "%d %sn", $4, $0}' | sort -n | sed 's/^[0-9]* //' | less

• Drobo
• Seagate Warranty Validation
• CrashPlan Linux Headless Client Overview
• CrashPlan Packages for Synology DiskStation (what Dave uses)
• Mac OS X: Starting up in Safe Mode (1:09:35)
• The Mac Geek Gab iPhone app
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• BackBeat Media Podcast Network
• MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed – Thanks to Michael Johnston of We Have Communicators (formerly the iPhoneAlley podcast) and Applr.